This Week I Learned -
* 100 Days of IaC in Azure
* Theme based "best of" content resources to explore the latest Azure content and code samples.
* Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) prep material on Github
* The HTTP Archive crawls millions of pages every month and runs them through a private instance of WebPageTest to store key information of every page. The web is not a teenager anymore—it is now 30 years old and acts like it. The 600-paged 2020 Web Almanac [PDF] is HTTP Archive’s annual state of the web report.
* Images are the greatest source of weight. This means, it will also be our greatest source of savings.
* Microbrowsers, lso known as “link unfurlers” and “link expanders,” these are the user agents that request web pages and grab bits and pieces from them to assemble rich previews when links are shared in messaging or on social media. The lingua franca of microbrowsers is Facebook’s Open Graph protocol
* Amazon, Microsoft and Google are all Databricks investors.
* It is possible to recall withdraw sent LinkedIn invitations from the Manage invitations page
* The existing Income Tax portal built by TCS has been replaced by a new portal www.incometax.gov.in which is created by Infosys. Within hours of launching the new e-filing portal for income tax payers, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman faced fury from users on her twitter timeline, as the portal saw several glitches. This is not the first time a tax portal developed by Infosys is in the news for the wrong reason. Earlier, there were lot of issues with GST portal. Non-Executive Chairman of Infosys, Nandan Nilekani, then made a detailed presentation before the GST Council and presented a timeline for better services including for new facilities being introduced. - The Hindu Business Line
* In the United States, a Colles fracture is the term used for all distal radius fractures. Colles' fractures most often occur with a fall onto an outstretched hand. The fall sends force through the bones and displaces the distal radius toward the back of the hand or forearm. Colles fractures are extremely common.
* Thomas Vinterberg’s movie “Another Round”, about friendship and alcohol won the Oscar for international feature. The movie is "about four depraved white drunk men who teach children to drink” The story involves the four school teachers drinking on the job. There are rules: Imbibing in the morning is recommended—in fact, encouraged. But everyone must stop at eight in the evening (the regimen favored by Ernest Hemingway), and no one should consume enough to get knee-walking drunk, at least not at first. This manly experiment is intended to test the theory of real-life Norwegian psychiatrist Finn Skårderud, who has asserted that the normal blood alcohol level of human beings is just too low. The suggestion is that we’d all be better off if we went through life slightly drunk.
* You'd be barking mad not to know these dog-related idioms - If you are "in the doghouse", someone is annoyed with you because of something you have done or not done.
* Nowadays CE has replaced AD and BCE has replaced BC, for political correctness.
Common Era (CE) is one of the year notations used for the Gregorian calendar, the world's most widely used calendar era. Before the Common Era is the era before CE. BCE and CE are alternatives to the Dionysian BC and AD notations, respectively.
* The 1st Century included the years 1-100 (there was no year zero), and the 2nd Century, the years 101-200. Similarly, when we say 2nd Century B.C.E. we are referring to the years 200-101 B.C.E.
* Often dates will be preceded with a "c." or a "ca." These are abbreviations of the Latin word "circa" which means around, or approximately. We use this before a date to indicate that we do not know exactly when something happened, so c. 400 B.C.E. means approximately 400 years Before the Common Era.
* An individual who adopts the virtue perspective of Aristotle might evaluate tax avoidance strategies in the context of an individual's other virtuous behaviours. If someone avoids taxes but provides financial support to other institutions or entities that are meaningful to the tax avoider but also produce benefits for society, then the virtuous individual may view this behaviour with less disdain...whether tax avoidance strategies are viewed and rationalized as ethical or unethical likely depends on the ethical foundations of the person judging such actions. - ET
* "
Never follow your passion but always bring it with you.
If we're talking about your hobby, by all means let your passion lead you. But when it comes to making a living, it's easy to forget the dirty truth: just because you're passionate about something doesn't mean you won't suck at it. Your happiness on the job has very little to do with the work itself. Follow opportunity not passion. Staying the course only makes sense if you're headed in a sensible direction. When people follow their passion, they miss out on all kinds of opportunities they didn't even know existed."
* According to the creator, Scott Adams, Pointy-haired boss, the manager of the engineering division in the Dilbert cartoons does not have a proper name so that all the people reading the cartoons can imagine him as their boss.
* In Canada, a humanoid robot named Ludwig can track the progression of Alzheimer’s by monitoring vocal patterns in conversations over time.
* ...isolation is an objective state (not having much contact with the world); loneliness is a subjective one (feeling that the contact you have is not enough). Both are thought to prompt a heightened inflammatory response, which can increase a person’s risk for a vast range of pathologies, including dementia, depression, high blood pressure, and stroke. - The New Yorker
* 50 per cent of the prison population in New Zealand have dyslexia.
* Dyslexia is often picked up around age 7 or 8 by observant parents, who notice their clever child who loves to learn, falling behind in reading, writing and spelling - which doesn't make sense. Traditionally thought of as a learning disorder, dyslexia affects a part of the brain that processes language.
* Richard Branson, Virgin founder, school dropout and self-made billionaire, feels neurodiversity (which includes dyslexia, ASD and ADHD just to name a few) can give businesses a successful edge. He considers his dyslexia (found late), his "superpower". As a young boy, he ran many businesses and credits his Mum, Eve Branson, for supporting his wild ideas rather than squashing them. -
NZ Herald
* "Once I was freed from old fashioned schooling practices and preconceptions about how things should be done, my mind opened up. Out in the real world, I feel my dyslexia has been a massive advantage: it has helped me to think creatively, to see the big picture where others don't and to view challenges as opportunities". - Richard Branson
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